“Fear and Loathing” is track #12 on Marina and the Diamonds' second album Electra Heart and also the closing track to the standard version of the album. The song is titled after the Hunter S. Thompson book of the same name.
This song is a clarion call, in which she proclaims, “Don’t want to live in...
[Verse 1]
I lived a lot of different lives
Been different people many times
I lived my life in bitterness
And filled my heart with emptiness
[Verse 2]
Now I see, I see it for the first time
There is no crime in being kind
Not everyone is out to screw you over
Maybe, yeah just maybe, they just want to get to know you
[Pre-Chorus 1]
And now the time is here
Baby, you don't have to live your life in fear
The sky is clear
It's clear of fear
[Chorus 1]
Don't wanna live in fear and loathing
I wanna feel like I am floating
Instead of constantly exploding
In fear and loathing
[Verse 3]
Got different people inside my head
I wonder which one that they like best
I'm done with tryna have it all
And ending up with not much at all
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And now the time is here
Baby you don't have to live your life in fear
The sky is clear
It's clear of fear
Of fear
[Chorus 1]
Don't wanna live in fear and loathing
I wanna feel like I am floating
Instead of constantly exploding
In fear and loathing
[Bridge]
And when the time comes along
And the lights run out
I know a light will burn on
When they blow me out
[Chorus 1]
Don't wanna live in fear and loathing
I wanna feel like I am floating
Instead of constantly exploding
In fear and loathing
[Chorus 2]
I wanna be completely weightless
I wanna touch the edge of greatness
Don't wanna be completely faithless
Completely faithless
[Outro]
When the time comes around
When the lights will go out
When the time comes around
When the lights, they go out
[Grandmother singing]
Ποθώ γλυκές νεράιδες να δω
Και από κορμί ξωτικό μαγικό χορό
Να χαϊδέψω μαύρα μαλλιά
Να φιλήσω χείλη μελιά
Ένα τραγούδι απ' τ' Aλγέρι
Τραγούδι του καμηλιέρη
Σ' ένα γλυκό αφρικάνικο σκοπό
Fear and Loathing was written by MARINA.
Fear and Loathing was produced by Liam Howe.
MARINA released Fear and Loathing on Mon Aug 08 2011.
In a track-by-track interview about Electra Heart, Marina said:
I think ‘Fear and Loathing’ was a turning point for me in that I stopped being such a bitter person and that was actually the time I started to work with other people. ‘Fear and Loathing’ I wrote on my own in my bedroom in London and...